Ever Considered Taking Your Own Name Badge To Work Events?

Do you take your own bag to the shops? Ever considered taking your own name badge to work events?

Do you recycle, carry a reusable cup and/or water bottle, use recycled paper, ink cartridges and do your bit to reduce the amount of waste that goes into landfill?

When it comes to ‘going green’ and ‘plastic free’ we’ve all changed our mindset so much over the past few years. We take our own bags to the supermarket and understand how important it is to reduce our consumption, so why do we still see so many plastic name badges at events?

What if we were able to design our own biodegradable badges, etched with our own artwork, that we can take along to events?

What if we used reusable Badges for Life?

Do you want a stylish reusable name badge or a ‘Badge For Life’?

If your answer is ‘YES!!’, you’re in the right place as that’s where we come in.

Small Oak Name Badge With Jameson Irish Whiskey Logo And Name Laser Engraved

We create stylish reusable name badges or ‘Badges For Life’ – we also make laser etched coasters, keyrings and other branded designs that you can use loads of times, every day if you like.

What’s more we can engrave your branding or marketing messages so you can give them out to your clients as corporate gifts. Oak coasters and keyrings are popular for this purpose.

Branded Oak Keyring (4 x 6 cm)

Our products make it pretty clear that your company is doing its bit to save the planet by using natural products (they could even contribute to meeting your company’s environmental targets).

All our designs are made of wood, so they’re durable and when they do reach the end of their life, they’ll biodegrade.

What exactly is a badge for life?

A Badge for Life is a design-led attractive, solid wood, alternative to plastic or metal name badges.

Our aim was to create a smart, reusable alternative solution to disposable name badges and one that would eventually biodegrade and help businesses with their efforts to go green.

Solid oak Badges for Life come in a couple of sizes, small (2.5 x 7.5 cm) and large (5 x 7.5 cm).

Large Oak Greenpeace Badge With Name Card

The badge blanks are hand finished and cured with organic oils, then they are laser engraved with your branding/logo/name/job title (using lasers means we can engrave even super detailed logos).

If you opt for large badges you can request a name slot, which allows you to write or print a name card and slot it in, which is perfect for networking events where you don’t know who will show up at the last minute.

Our products are manufactured in the UK by our talented team, so our customers can be safe in the knowledge that the products were made in a safe environment, using sustainably sourced wood from managed forests.

What led to our Badge for Life idea?

The idea came to us at an event where we’d been handed plastic name badges to wear, they had pins on the back to attach them. They didn’t look professional, smart or sit well on our clothes, and they left pin holes.

It made us think about how many plastic badges go into landfill every year, how much waste is created by companies that use them and how we could reduce this whilst coming up with a name badge that delegates, hospitality staff members and networking groups would want to own, wear and reuse.

Most of us are in the habit of taking our own bags to the supermarket, so why not take your own badge to work?

We set out to look at the problems and started to consider plastic free solutions.

What if big global brands and small independent brands alike want to show their customers that they care about the planet? What if they wanted a stylish biodegradable solution? What if the stylish wooden look really fit in with their brand values?

Large Oak Jameson Irish Whiskey Name Badge With Laser Engraved Logo And Name Slot

By creating a durable high quality wooden badge that could be worn for years we could reduce plastic waste and create badges that were practical, attractive and customisable with card name slots.

Our badges would be beautifully branded, reflect environmental values and would be worn with pride, not hidden away or worse thrown into a bin and end up in landfill. We got to work designing and creating prototypes.

Creating A Better Badge Solution

We started thinking about the design aspects, the materials, the fixings – how could we make something better, more planet friendly, more natural, more valued, more attractive, so people would want to flaunt their name badges and reuse them rather than hide them?

Small Oak Badge with Ogilvy Spirits Logo Engraved

As part of our quest to provide a Badge For Life we spoke to a wide range of people who wear and use name badges on a regular basis, from event planners to hospitality staff, we wanted to solve their problems by creating better product solutions.

If name badges, coasters and keyrings were more luxurious they might be better looked after and used for longer.

They’d enhance the customer journey as logos and messages could be etched onto natural materials, to show customers that their company cares about their brand image and the environment!

Like those white plastic coffee cups that we see fewer of today, plastic badges are perceived as cheap and disposable and often don’t get collected in at the end of an event. Despite being designed to be reused, they tend not to be.

We’ve all been handed a plastic badge wallet with those clips that are really awkward to clip on or pins that mark your shirt. There never seems to be a right place to put them so they end up in your pocket or bag then before you realise you’ve left the event…and it’s still hiding in your bag!

So the cycle goes on ordering more, spending more, creating more waste.

Once we’d been making wooden laser engraved badges for a while we were asked for other bespoke products and to date have made beer pump clips for a bar, menu boards, wedding save the date coasters for a craft beer loving couple, signs, coasters, hotel door hangers and christmas decorations for the Nutcracker ballet.

Strongrooms Bar Branded Beer Pump Clip

We love creating new designs, if you’d like us to work with you to create bespoke designs for your business, we would love to hear from you, visit our contact page!

If you’d like to order branded badges, keyrings or coasters for you or your business please email us on vix@b2b4b.co.uk

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I ordered some custom keyrings from Bough to Beauty as a momento of a big friends and family camping and adventure weekend. I wanted something sustainable and beautiful that would encourage the kids to hold on to them and not throw them away. I hid their keyrings in a pirate treasure chest and had a huge treasure hunt on the campsite to find it. They were delighted with them. It was all a bit last minute but thanks to Vix, I got my custom design and all the kids names engraved and the keyrings delivered on time. Great service, and a beautiful product. Something to treasure.

Michelle Purse

The natural wooden name badges made by Bough to Beauty Bespoke were perfect for our Retail Partnership campaign. They were excellent quality and the order and design process was really simple and quick.

We were looking for something to tie in with the refurb of the Bistro, Bough to Beauty sent a sample and the Beermats for the Dove were fab! Quick and efficient service and brilliant quality. Thanks so much.

I first discovered the Bough to Beauty Bespoke website in 2015. I was looking online for unique natural badges for a European trade show that I was helping to organise for a client. With delegates travelling from all over the globe to attend, the name badges needed to be special, stylish and on brand. They hit my client’s brief perfectly and I’ve placed several orders since. Dealing with Bough to Beauty was easy too, just email or call for a timely response.

I was thrilled to find a zero-plastic, eco name badge option to show colleagues and event visitors that we walk the talk. Ordering from Bough to Beauty Bespoke was an easy process, and they look brilliant. We get comments about them wherever we go, and they are a simple but effective way of displaying our values. We recommend them highly!

Catrin DarsleySustainable Development Manager, University of East Anglia

We were looking for an environmentally responsible solution to bits of paper we stuck on taps telling people that our beers were changing over and we have definitely found it in Bough to Beauty Bespoke! They were super helpful and responsive and the end product is not only beautiful, but it fits our brief completely! Thanks Vix & Lou!

We have been trying to find wooden badges for a while, but hadn’t had much success. We were delighted to come across Bough to Beauty Bespoke. The badges are excellent quality, and really fit with our brand and uniforms. The magnetic fixing works really well, and the speed of service has been fantastic. Overall, a great experience.

We were delighted with the look and feel of our event badges as we are truly bored with the standard conference badge. This is both green but also stylish and something you don’t mind wearing on a suit or dress due to the magnet on the back. Big thanks to Bough to Beauty Bespoke for all their help and turning this job around so quickly.

I used Bough to Beauty for my mayoral plaque (usually mayors get a badge but I wanted something rather more bespoke and local for mine). We had a brass plate engraved and then Bough to Beauty mounted it in some really nice wood. They did an excellent job. The design is simple yet very pleasing to the eye. I’d go for a repeat prescription if I’m ever mayor again!